Stranger Than Fiction

Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

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The blockbuster movie The Matrix was released in 1999. It depicted a bleak future with a simulated reality called “the Matrix,” created by sentient machines to exploit humans as an energy resource.

The success of the movie proved that people were ready to hear the truth, even if—or especially since—it was disguised as science fiction. But truth is stranger than fiction: the Matrix is real—we are living in the Matrix.

The following pages read like the script for a science fiction movie, with a cast of malevolent and benign aliens, a league of human minions, a battle for…